Enterprise Scale Architecture

Architectural Foundation

The Skytap Cloud platform is built on the following guiding principles:

Self-service and multi-tenancy

Federated command and control system

Software-defined networking to mirror on-premises networking

Hardware and hypervisor-agnostic

Scalable fault-tolerant microservices

Repeatable, automated server provisioning using containers and infrastructure as code

Canonical Service Architecture

Skytap Cloud is highly available and scalable because of its microservices architecture. Microservices and DevOps practices help Skytap technical teams own services end-to-end, while consistently increasing velocity and quality.

Web Tier

Skytap Cloud’s web tier is the key to its self-service simplicity and speed. This tier is responsible for the user interface, powerful REST API, administrator visibility and control, and collaboration. Skytap Cloud’s web UI takes full advantage of modern browsers, from SVG and canvas to dynamic rendering and websockets.

Platform Tier

Skytap Cloud’s platform tier provides an internal abstraction and workflow engine on top of raw infrastructure resources. This layer handles the complexity and orchestration required to turn raw infrastructure resources into working virtual data centers. As a result, Skytap Cloud’s web tier can issue simple commands, such as “run environment,” without needing to understand the details. The platform tier also implements higher level infrastructure services like Skytap Cloud Container Management.